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CiteScore:
1.80ℹCiteScore:2018: 1.800CiteScore measures the average citations received per document published in this title. CiteScore values are based on citation counts in a given year (e.g. 2015) to documents published in three previous calendar years (e.g. 2012 – 14), divided by the number of documents in these three previous years (e.g. 2012 – 14).

Impact Factor:
1.451ℹImpact Factor:2018: 1.451The Impact Factor measures the average number of citations received in a particular year by papers published in the journal during the two preceding years.
2018 Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2019)

5-Year Impact Factor:
1.631ℹFive-Year Impact Factor:2018: 1.631To calculate the five year Impact Factor, citations are counted in 2018 to the previous five years and divided by the source items published in the previous five years.
2018 Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2019)

Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP):
0.717ℹSource Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP):2018: 0.717SNIP measures contextual citation impact by weighting citations based on the total number of citations in a subject field.

SCImago Journal Rank (SJR):
0.304ℹSCImago Journal Rank (SJR):2018: 0.304SJR is a prestige metric based on the idea that not all citations are the same. SJR uses a similar algorithm as the Google page rank; it provides a quantitative and a qualitative measure of the journal’s impact.

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Special Issue on Ultra-Reliable, Low-Latency and Low-Power Transmissions in the Era of Internet-of-Things (submission due: November 1, 2019)

5G is on its ways towards an efficient framework, not only for enhancing the data rate of current 4G, but also for the goal of achieving ubiquitous connections for anyone and anything despite of time and location. This goal embraces all emerging applications, such as unmanned or remotely controlled robots/vehicles/offices/factories, augmented/virtual reality, intelligent transportation systems, smart grid/building/city, immersive sensory experience, and the Internet of Things (IoT). Therefore, in order to provide heterogeneous services to massive devices, connections and applications in the 5G networks, advanced transmission technologies with different features and requirements are desired. The massive transmissions in IoT should be able to provide connectivity for primarily low-rate and low-power connectivity for enormous amounts of simple sensor/actuator type of devices, and enable real-time control and automation of dynamic processes in various fields, such as industrial process automation and manufacturing, energy distribution or traffic management and safety. Therefore, apart from the data rate improvement, an efficient and effective IoT system should be the one with ultra-low latency, as well as ultra-high reliability and availability. Moreover, as the devices are commonly powered by the batteries which are developed in a relatively low speed, low-power transmission methods are also desired. Nevertheless, the current research advances usually focus on the throughput improvement for the traditional cellular transmissions, while low power, low latency and high reliability schemes call for attention. Some fundamental problems are still open and require immediate studies, such as: How to provide insights to the fundamental tradeoff between ultra-reliable, low-latency and low-power consumption? How to derive an accurate and appropriate model for the above tradeoff? How can we make a smart decision addressing this tradeoff?

Are there any new applications that can utilize novel ultra-reliable, low-latency and low-power transmissions in the era of IoT?

The goal of this Special Issue is to bring together leading researchers and developers from both industry and academia to discuss and present their views on all the aspects of design of ultra-reliable, low-latency and low-power transmissions to embrace the IoT era. Topics of this special issue include but not limited to:

All submitted papers must be clearly written in excellent English and contain only original work, which has not been published by or is currently under review for any other journal or conference. Papers must not exceed 25 pages (one-column, at least 11pt fonts) including figures, tables, and references. A detailed submission guideline is available as “Guide to Authors” at: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/physical-communication/

All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted through EVISE. The authors must select as “Urllc-LoPIoT” when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process.

All papers will be peer-reviewed by three independent reviewers. Requests for additional information should be addressed to the guest editors.